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Atari VCS Programming: A VERY Brief Introduction

Bill Caputo
November 05, 2015

Atari VCS Programming: A VERY Brief Introduction

Slides from a lighting talk I gave at the Chicago, open-source, open-mic meet-up on 11/5/2015

supporting code here: https://github.com/logosity/atari-intro-osom

Bill Caputo

November 05, 2015
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  1. Atari VCS Programming A Very Brief Intro Bill Caputo Open-source

    Open-Mic Chicago IL Nov, 5th 2015 @logosity https://github.com/logosity game programTM Use with Joystick Controllers CX-6502 Made in Chicago
  2. Atari VCS Programming A Very Brief Intro Bill Caputo Open-source

    Open-Mic Chicago IL Nov, 5th 2015 @logosity https://github.com/logosity game programTM Use with Joystick Controllers CX-6502 Made in Chicago
  3. Links & Stuff Andrew Davie Tutorial: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/33233-sorted-table-of-contents/ Easy 6502: http://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/

    Excellent introduction; what I know, I know from this game programTM Use with Keyboard Controller Nice intro to 6502 programming; in browser emulator; shows registers memory, etc 6502.org: http://www.6502.org/tutorials/6502opcodes.html Great 6502 resource site; link is to a handy opcode reference Atari Color Chart: http://www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-tia-color-charts.html Colors are tricky on the VCS; this will help a lot Presentation: https://github.com/logosity/atari-intro-osom Home of the source code for this presentation Documentary: Atari: Game Over Great to get a sene of the history & mystery of ET cartridges solved Book: Racing the Beam In depth, and fairly technical look at how these games were written